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Emily Bengels
... Jersey. Participating in USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education’s professional development program Auschwitz: The Past is Present ... kindness over powerful prejudice – and that comes from education.” As her students watch her prepare for the trip to Poland, ...
robin.migdol - 01/05/2015 - 2:46pm
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Lessons from Kony 2012
... as likely to vote as those who did not. In some cases, a student’s first political exposure might come from a video (such as Kony ... Like the other groups we study, IC saw recruitment and civic education as the organization’s core mission. Kony 2012 did not “go ...
webmaster - 08/20/2013 - 5:05pm
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Last Chance to See New Dimensions in Testimony at USHMM
... with Gutter debuted at Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center last year, however, museum docents moderated the ...
robin.migdol - 08/31/2016 - 5:01pm
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Video Testimony Beyond Borders: Ukrainian, Georgian, and Armenian Teachers Share Ideas
... Ukraine gained its independence in 1991, the Ministry of Education has recognized the critical importance of developing appropriate ... surrounding the Famine and, in a specially-designed student component, students are tasked with researching the available ...
Anonymous - 04/13/2023 - 1:44pm
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Guatemala Conference Preview: "Racist Discourse and Genocide"
... of Mexico. Gonzales-Ponciano grew up in Guatemala and was a student at the University of San Carlos in the early 1980s when he had to move ...
robin.migdol - 09/01/2016 - 5:11pm
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“Auschwitz: The Past is Present” Teacher Presents IWitness at Virginia English Teachers Conference
... The participants spent three days with USC Shoah Foundation education staff learning how to build IWitness activities. Dobrin was also ... the world as part of USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education’s Auschwitz: The Past is Present program. There, the ...
robin.migdol - 10/22/2015 - 1:22pm
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2015 Jerome Nemer Lecture & Film Documentary
... the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education, and USC's Max Kade Institute for Austrian-German-Swiss Studies ... victims of Nazi brutality.This means focusing on Holocaust education in our schools and upholding tolerance and the rule of law in our ...
Anonymous - 04/13/2023 - 1:49pm
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Junior Interns Reflect on Auschwitz: The Past is Present
... is Present was led by USC Shoah Foundation and Discovery Education. Twenty-five teachers from around the world and 13 junior interns in ... a keepsake of their time together. Lesly Culp , senior education specialist and trainer at the Institute, helped plan and implement ...
robin.migdol - 06/15/2015 - 5:28pm
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Genocide Awareness Month Engages Big Audience on Social Media
... account, which posts specifically about the Institute’s education programs, enjoyed a spike in activity for each of the month’s ... by partners like Facing History and Ourselves and Discovery Education and encourage educators to tweet about how they are using IWitness in ...
robin.migdol - 06/03/2016 - 4:26pm
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Emily Musil Church
... teaming up with USC Shoah Foundation associate director of education – evaluation and scholarship Amy M. Carnes, Ph.D., to bring seven ... about interviewing techniques, giving testimony and genocide education. This weekend, the class will travel to Rwanda. There, Church said ...
robin.migdol - 06/19/2014 - 5:50pm